Johnny Cash Album Ft. Chris Cornell, Kacey Musgraves Detailed

Featuring musical adaptations of Cash’s poetry

Johnny Cash (Photo by Beth Gwinn/Redferns)

Johnny Cash: Forever Words is a new album based on the poetry of Johnny Cash, previously collected in a book of the same name. As previously reported, it features musical adaptations of Cash’s poems by Chris Cornell, Kacey Musgraves, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, the Jayhawks, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, and more. Today, the full tracklist and release date have been revealed: The 16-song set is due out April 6 via Legacy Recordings. Watch a trailer for the project below.

John Carter Cash, who co-produced the album, said in a statement, “I picked the artists who are most connected with my father, who had a personal story that was connected with Dad. It became an exciting endeavor to go through these works, to put them together and present them to different people who could finish them in a way that I believed that Dad would have wanted.”